Ane Margaux

“People aren’t meant to live forever. I know that now.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“I wanted to forget him, and yet it seemed I thought of him always. It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I'd envision his face -- not as it had been the last night in the fire, but on the other nights, that last evening he spent with us at home, his hand playing idly with the keys of the spinet, his head tilted to one side. A sickness rose in me more wretched than anguish when I saw what my dreams were doing. I wanted him alive! In the dark nights of eastern Europe, Lestat was the only vampire I'd found.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“French Vanilla,” Kingsley said. “What’s that?” “Vanilla with a strong libido and a taste for anal.” “I can see that.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Queen

“All nuns, by the very fact of their monastic profession, are exceptional people. No ordinary woman could live such a life. There must inevitably be something, or many things, that are outstanding about a nun.”
― Jennifer Worth, The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times